Minjee Lee wins Rolex Annika Major Award as season's top performer in women's majors

Minjee Lee's putting resurgence has resulted in another win: the Rolex Annika Major Award. The Aussie becomes the first two-time winner of the award since its inception in 2014.

Points are earned by placing top-10 finishes in majors. Lee finished with 78 points through the five major championships of the 2025 season, winning the 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. She also finished in a share of third at the Amundi Evian Championship. Mao Saigo, winner of the Chevron Championship, finished four points back.

Players must win a major to be eligible for the award. Lee also won the RAMA in 2022 after winning the U.S. Women’s Open and recording two additional top-five finishes at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship (T2) and AIG Women’s Open (T4).

Lee was asked on Sunday at the AIG Women's British Open to rate her performance at the majors this season.

"I think from where I was at the beginning of the year, and obviously winning KPMG and played Chevron and had a good finish at Evian and all right at U.S. Open and all right here," said Lee. "So I feel like I – I'm going to say I've done pretty well. Maybe like an 8½."

Prior to the KPMG, Lee hadn't won since the fall of 2023, and her resurgence of late can be traced back to one club: the long putter. She put it in play at the start of the season at the urging of longtime coach Ritchie Smith.

Lee’s Strokes Gained: Putting in 2024 was a dismal 137th. She finished first in the field at the KPMG Women's PGA and is currently fourth in SGP.

“Just changing to the broomstick has given me a lot more freedom, I think,” she said in Texas. “I was just – I guess I just had a lot of thoughts, and just I was overthinking probably about just the conventional way of putting.

“I think just taking my hands a little more out of it and using the broomstick has really been helping me.”

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Minjee Lee wins Rolex Annika Major Award for top performer in majors